Sleep: Do You Really Need Eight Hours?
You try to get to bed at a reasonable hour—most nights, you even turn out the lights before 11pm. But then, just a few hours later, you’re wide awake and watching the numbers on your alarm clock change from 3am to 4am to 5am...
Many of us have stressed out about insomnia, but could it be a part of our normal sleep cycle?
According to a recent article from the BBC, historical and scientific evidence shows that eight hours of straight sleep might be unnatural.
A few centuries ago, it was fairly common for people to have two rest periods of about four hours each. Historical accounts show that in between these segmented sleep blocks, our ancestors enjoyed various activities--meditation, prayer, writing, conversation, or even having sex.
Join Us As We Rock the Ripple Effect!
We’ve got some very exciting news to share with you!
As some of you may already know, we will be hosting our next conference, Rock the Ripple Effect on November 6th in New York City!
Rock The Ripple Effect
When: Sunday, November 6th 2011 from 10 AM to 4 PM
Where: Jazz at Lincoln Center
We have an incredible line-up of speakers at this conference who will be lecturing on their various areas of expertise in the world of health and nutrition.
25 Ways to Detox Your Life
1. Our resident raw food guru and Integrative Nutrition guest teacher David Wolfe talks about getting started with detox in this short but super informative video.
2. When detoxing your diet, food really matters. The film Food Matters offers a Detox and Rejuvenation Guide e-book that helps you apply the principals in the movie to remove processed, illness-causing foods from your diet.
3. Integrative Nutrition guest teacher Dr. Mark Hyman gives you everything you need to complete a safe, effective, and medically informed detoxification program at home in The Detox Box.
4. Find the right moves to twist and detox yourself into healthy bliss with Yoga Journal’s Go Podcast: Twist and Detox.
5. Revamp and detox your current routine with the “Reinvent Yourself 21 Day Detox eProgram” by Find Your Balance Health (Michelle Pfennighaus—an Integrative Nutrition graduate).
6. To prepare for a successful spring detox, check out this jam-packed foods and shopping list.
7. Take this quiz to see if you are a Detox Diva and get all the facts, even if you’re not quite the Aretha Franklin of detoxing yet.
8. Serious about detoxing your home? Many toxins, especially indoors, are within our control to regulate. PlanetGreen gives a comprehensive Room-by-Room Guide to creating a chemical free home.
9. Dr. Furhman’s Five-Day Super-Diet Challenge offers the chance to give your body a real cleanse with high-quality foods.
10. Striving for health, but pressed for time? Check out Pressed Juicery, a juice company with a cult following of celebrities started by an Integrative Nutrition grad. Check out their shippable menu and cleanse programs.
11. Ready to detox the meat out of your diet? Try Neal Barnard’s 21-Day Vegan Kickstart will get motivated.
12. Feel like you can’t seem to find your life amongst all of the clutter? Check out this helpful guide to clear your clutter and find your life.
13. Lemons & Loafers, a fashion and health blog Integrative Nutrition grad Julia Argenti, helps others look and feel great, and also offers guided cleanses through out the year.
14. Skin brushing can detox the largest organ of the body. Organic Passion’s “How to detox your skin” is a complete guide on how to use skin brushing for detoxification.
15. Make your own. Since many cleaning products are full of harmful chemicals, Eco-cycle gives easy recipes for making your own cleaning products.
16. Need some ideas to get started on the whole decluttering process? Zen Habits shares its 15 Great Decluttering Tips.
17. Debunk myths to clear out the space for decluttering! The Happiness Project reveals 11 myths of decluttering to help in your efforts!
18. The skin is one of our biggest organs, so tea drinkers, try pairing Yogi Tea’s “Skin Detox” with an easy weekend skin detox from Natural Health Magazine.
19. Detox the SAD (Standard American Diet) out of your life. Integrative Nutrition grad and author, Alex Jamieson, who also appeared in the film Super Size Me, gives us The great American Detox Diet.
20. Crazy Sexy detox this spring with wellness warrior Kris Carr’s new book Crazy Sexy Diet for the ultimate guide to cleaning up your body and your mind.
21. Integrative Nutrition guest teacher John Douillard shows you how the ancient science of Ayurveda provides a healthy daily routine and eating plan that will detoxify your body naturally on his Ayurveda for Detox DVD.
22. We’ve all heard of detoxing your body, but what about detoxing your day?
23. Top ten list on how to detox your home for babies and kids from author Alexandra Zissu of The Complete Organic Pregnancy. These tips go well beyond the standard advice.
24. Easy-to-follow detox ideas from Frank Lipman's checklist of 20 Ways to 'Detox' Your Home.
25. You say Juice, some say Joos. Joos To Your Health! is a juice company started by an Integrative Nutrition grad that helps properly support you through juice cleanses.
26. BONUS: Need to get rid of stuff? Recycle with Freecycle their mission is to build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our landfills.
